Gravitational waves promise to shed light on fundamental physics through observations of dark compact objects. Gravitational waves provide a unique window into the most cataclysmic events in the ...

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Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Something wonderful happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Everything in the universe was created in an instant as ...

In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...